This mouse is an exmouse.
It has ceased to be. Any reference to this mouse as a going concern is no longer relevant....and so on.
We spied it on the street. Expired in the gutter. In a city with so many cats on the edge of starvation we were surprised to see a mouse of any kind, going concern or not.
I'd like to say I'm not in the least interested in exmice, but I did notice it; and then dismissed it from my mind.
It doesn't do to pine for mice and for my hobby of waiting by the compost heap under the apple tree.....
Hari OM
ReplyDelete...and you have left me wondering if said exmouse lasted long lying lingeringly or whether the cats are further back from hunger's edge than you thought... hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
We wondered if it had been poisoned. It didn't look 'played with' and was a remarkably big mouse. Furrings & purrings Mr T
DeleteThe field mice are trying to find a nice dry home for winter in our wood pile
ReplyDeleteOur cats have worked this out.
Everyday they go looking and come out with a mouse in their mouths.
I’m not sad. I’m very very happy. That’s one less mouse trying to get into my house
It is on just such terms that cats have apparently (archaeological evidence suggests) had a longer relationship with humans than dogs - mutually beneficial independence. The things humans do attract mice, and they like having cats around to catch mice. And of course we cats like a good supply of mice. xxx Mr T
DeleteMy wife found one recently. She surmised that it was a gift from a neighbour's cat who does our mousing for us.
ReplyDeleteDon't you just miss a good mouser? I eat my mice. Why waste a perfectly good one? Regards Mr T
DeleteOscar would agree - he passed a dead squirrel the other day, hardly gave it a look - now if it had moved... We have two cats next door that bring presents each day - usually vermin, but they did bring in woodpeckers last year which seemed rather sad, if no less natural
ReplyDeleteMum would have turned me into a Davy Crockett hat if i killed a woodpecker. Fortunately for my skin i preferred mousing to birding.
Deletethe first thing I thought of was poisoned, and how dangerous it is for the cats or birds of pray that eat it. not only does poison kill what eats it but kills everything that eats the exmouse.. our wonderful precious screech owl was killed by eating a poisoned rat. glad you stayed away from it Tigger
ReplyDeleteNope. I think I shall stick with my roast chicken today, thanks all the same.
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